Word: john
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...Home Entertainment Group, following reports that the FBI was investigating his possible ties to organized crime. For at least a year, FBI agents have been tapping the phones of Giaquinto and others in the industry who were heard discussing contacts with mobsters like New York's Gambino-family boss, John Gotti. The eavesdroppers have listened to talk about films being made with laundered Mob money. A widening investigation is under...
DINNER AT EIGHT The classic dawn-of-the-Depression satire was hauntingly revived by New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. A superb cast of 24 included Elizabeth Wilson as the pathetic social climber and Charles Keating as the broken-down actor immortalized on film by John Barrymore...
...BUTTERFLY Politics makes the strangest of bedfellows in this operatically showy and entrancingly acted Broadway drama, based on the real-life romance between a transvestite Chinese opera performer (B.D. Wong) and a French diplomat (originated by John Lithgow) who believes his love is a real woman...
...JOHN ADAMS: NIXON IN CHINA (Nonesuch). A waltz across the Great Wall with Dick, Pat, Henry and Mao: the year's best new opera recording...
...John Updike. The scarlet letter on the dust jacket stands for Sarah Worth (nee Price), a wayward Massachusetts wife who runs off to an Indian guru's ashram in Arizona. Her messages home are consistently, if unconsciously, hilarious...